Middle East Quarterly
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Middle East Quarterly (MEQ) is a peer reviewed[1](since 2009 winter issue) quarterly journal, a publication of the American conservative[2] think tank Middle East Forum (MEF) founded by Daniel Pipes in 1994. It is devoted to subjects relating to the Middle East and Islam and analyzes the region "explicitly from the viewpoint of American interests". [1]
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[edit] Overview
Middle East Quarterly's publisher, the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum, is an American conservative[3] think tank founded in 1990 by historian and columnist Daniel Pipes, who also serves as its director.[4] According to Michelle Goldberg from Salon magazine, Pipes "has a Ph.D. from Harvard and is the author of 11 books, including the recent Militant Islam Reaches America. The Forum founded the Middle East Quarterly in 1994.
According to the Middle East Forum, the Middle East Quarterly deals with "Middle Eastern affairs". It states that:
"[P]olicy-makers, opinion-makers, academics, and journalists" consult it "for in-depth analysis of the rapidly-changing landscape of the world's most volatile region" and that it publishes "groundbreaking studies, exclusive interviews, insightful commentary, and hard-hitting reviews that tackle the entire range of contemporary concerns – from politics to economics to culture, across a region that stretches from Morocco to Afghanistan."[5]
One of its goals was also to provide a voice to academics who felt that the mainstream academic press was not giving voice to their views on Islam. Until 2009, it did no peer review, leaving nearly all publishing decisions with its editors.[1] The MEQ website explained then that "The Quarterly has become an outlet of choice for policy practitioners and senior scholars secure in their tenure and displeased with the ideological rigidity of the peer-reviewed journals."[1] According to founder Daniel Pipes, "In the halls of academe, the Quarterly delivers a welcome balance to the many materials that relentlessly attack the United States and Israel."[6]
Edited by Denis MacEoin, it is published in print, and all but the current issue are also available as full texts from the website of the Middle East Forum, which does provide links to full texts of some selected current articles. In 2009, MEQ introduced peer review for the first time, both to improve the quality of articles and "to give junior faculty an opportunity, while building their careers, to express their views freely."[1]
[edit] Contributors
A full list of contributors can be found at http://www.meforum.org/docs/order/author
[edit] Staff
From the organization's website:
- Dr. Daniel Pipes, publisher
- Dr. Denis MacEoin, editor
- Dr. Patrick Clawson, senior editor
- Dr. Michael Rubin, senior editor
- Judy Goodrobb, managing editor[7]
[edit] Board of editors
From the organization's website:
- Dr. Fouad Ajami, Johns Hopkins University
- Dr. Anthony Cordesman, Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Dr. Khalid Duran, TransState Islam
- Dr. David Fromkin, Boston University
- Dr. Paul Henze, RAND Corporation
- Dr. Eliyahu Kanovsky, Bar-Ilan University[8]
- Dr. Geoffrey Kemp, The Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom[9]
- Dr. Martin Kramer, The Shalem Center
- Dr. Habib C. Malik, Foundation for Human and Humanitarian Rights in Lebanon[10]
- James Phillips, the Heritage Foundation
- Dr. Steven Plaut, University of Haifa
- Amb. Dennis Ross, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- Dr. Barry Rubin, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel.
- Dr. Saliba Sarsar, Monmouth University[11]
- Dr. Robert B. Satloff, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- Dr. Sabri Sayari, Georgetown University[12]
- Dr. Haim Shaked, University of Miami[13]
- Dr. Steven L. Spiegel, University of California, Los Angeles[14]
- Dr. Kenneth Stein, Emory University
- Dr. Marvin Zonis, University of Chicago[15]
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d e Editors' Note: On Peer Review, Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2009, p. 3 [1]
- ^ Scrutiny Increases for a Group Advocating for Muslims in U.S.
- ^ Scrutiny Increases for a Group Advocating for Muslims in U.S.
- ^ "Middle East Forum" listed in "Search Results" and "Resource Library" on the website of the Foreign Policy Association; cf. organization website for Middle East Forum, one of "Daniel Pipes's websites" (incl. its "Mission" statement), all accessed February 24, 2007.
- ^ Middle East Quarterly. Publication website hosted by its sponsoring organization Middle East Forum, accessed February 19, 2007.
- ^ http://www.danielpipes.org/mef.php
- ^ Board of Editors, Middle East Forum: Middle East Quarterly.
- ^ Ariel Center for Policy Research (ACPR).
- ^ Geoffrey Kemp at The Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom.
- ^ National Geographic Biography of Habib C. Malik.
- ^ Saliba Sarsar, "US and 'The Other': The Social Sciences and Our Age of Crisis," Keynote Speaker, 30th Annual Conference of the Eastern Community College Social Science Association (ECCSSA), Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey, March 26, 2004; incl. "Biographical Sketch."
- ^ General Profile of Sabri Sayari, Georgetown University faculty webpage.
- ^ Director of the George Feldenkreis Program in Judaic Studies, and Founding Director, Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, Florida.
- ^ Faculty and Staff listing for Steven L. Spiegel at The Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations, UCLA.
- ^ Board of Editors, Middle East Forum: Middle East Quarterly.
[edit] External links
- Middle East Quarterly. Publication website hosted by its sponsoring organization Middle East Forum. Contains full-text versions of all but current issue of the print edition of Middle East Quarterly, with links to selected current articles provided as "MEF's latest releases". Accessed February 19, 2007.
